Cope
Boy · KOHP · English
Cope is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “cloak, cape”. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
What does Cope mean?
English: surname from Middle English cope 'cloak'
“cloak, cape”
An English surname from Middle English cope 'cloak, cape'; also used as a short form of Copeland.
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Is Cope a girl's or a boy's name?
Cope is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cope in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,799among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 140,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Cope, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had more boys named Cope than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Cope in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Cope in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,794 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,835 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,320 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,044 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,486 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
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